BLACK LABEL
Black Label ( 2009 ), is a project that refers to an eponymous bar in the station district of Kitakyushu in Japan . The location of Black Label has been changed several times due to urban developments and the work is currently situated on a very small and multi-sided plot that completely dominates the appearance of the bar . Demand replicated the bar as a scale model in his studio and exhibited the photographs at the CCA Project Gallery in Kitakyushu , where he was in residence at the time . At the same time he hung a photo of the empty reconstructed exhibition space in the CCA Project Gallery in the original Black Label bar as a replacement for a mirror .
Reference images : Thomas Demand , Black Label , CCA Kitakyushu ( 2008 ). The two images show the interior of the original bar that served as a model for Demand ‘ s photographic series , and a photograph of the CCA Kitakyushu exhibition space that Demand hung inside the bar , in place of a mirror .
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